Theatre Forum is now Performing Arts Forum
Organiser: Irish Theatre Institute
Date: 17 May 2025
Time: 10am – 5pm
Venue: Bow Street Academy Dublin
Price: €15

with Safe to Create and Sue Mythen

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This workshop invites directors to learn basic tools for navigating the process of consent-based practices in planning, rehearsal, tech and performance to provide ongoing support of actors and their own team while creating Intimate Content for performance in theatre or film. A minimum of two years of professional experience is required to attend this workshop. Applicants should be 18+.

Please note: This workshop is not training to become an intimacy professional but is an introduction to principles that can influence an artist’s current practice.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Exploring conditions that support the creation of Intimate Content from audition to performance;
  • Principles of consent-based practice;
  • Guidance on intimacy breakdown of script;
  • Planning for intimacy rehearsals;
  • Running closed rehearsals/set;
  • Observing and maintaining boundaries during the process;
  • Communication structures around staging Intimate Content;
  • The role of an Intimacy Coordinator and how can they support your work;
  • Intro to choreography of intimacy and movement language;
  • Crew briefings; and,
  • Closure, deroling and self-care.

Please wear loose clothing as there will be practical work on the floor. There will be no nudity, lip-to-lip contact, or acting of intimate scenes.

If you are based outside Dublin, a limited number of travel bursaries are available to cover the travel costs to attend this workshop.
This workshop is subsidised by Safe to Create.